Research Article

Removal and Recovery of Chromium from Solutions Simulating Tannery Wastewater by Strong Acid Cation Exchanger

Table 3

The characteristics of the pilot plants.

Installation IInstallation II

Column height (m)30.00 × 10−219.40 × 10−2
Column diameter (m)6.70 × 10−210.00 × 10−2
Bed height (m)21.31 × 10−212.94 × 10−2
Resin bed volume (mL)7511016
Exhaustion flow rate (BV/h)1010
Regeneration flow rate (BV/h)22
Effluent volume (BV)200183
Removal of chromium (%)98.7089.24
Recovery of chromium (%)81.5692.50